Day 8: A bad habit

Procrastination: my Achilles heel. Father time and I have never seen eye to eye. One some occasions I get away with it, on others, not so. I learnt a valuable lesson in the most painful way possible about the dangers of procrastinating: There is never enough time. The best time is the present. There are no guarantees whatsoever. You never know when its too late until its too late.

So, if you want to do something, get started. If you miss someone, give them a call or visit them. If you have a creative idea you would like to start working on,start. These pieces of advice are for me and anyone else who's struggling with something similar. 

Here are some bad habits:

I usually recycle. I think that's a good habit. However, for some odd reason I forget to take my recycle box to the recycle station at the mall whenever I go shopping and end up with piles of bottles and newspaper that compete in size with the trash can. Not good.

Then there's the sweet tooth:

And finally, time wasters:

"I'm only going to play one game of bubble burst" said no-one ever.

"I'm only going to pin one item on Pinterest today" said no-one ever.

Luckily bad habit can be broken, or rather replaced with good ones. Quoting Leo Babauta "The key to forming a new habit is starting each day". Here's a good article from ZenHabits.net about forming new habits title The Habit of Starting. It's never too late to change ones habits, however that doesn't mean one should wait. The right time is now.